Orange Corridor selected
News release from RTA, Thursday, 27 August, 2009 3:00 PM
Dear residents, business owners and operators,
The NSW Minister for Roads has decided that plans for the upgrade of the Great Western Highway from Mount Victoria to Lithgow will now concentrate solely on the corridor along the existing highway (orange corridor).
Read the Minister for Roads’ news release.
The RTA website will be updated when more information is available.
Please phone 1800 035 733 (toll free), post a letter to PO Box 334 Parkes NSW 2870 or email western_projects@rta.nsw.gov.au for more information on the project.
Yours faithfully,
Cindy Nutley
Communications
Mount Victoria to Lithgow upgrade
hhag newsletter 6
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In the last Hartley Highway Action Group newsletter I alluded to the debate the committee has been having to define the principles that underpin our defence strategy.
We are still pursuing the Newnes corridor option and await responses, from both local member and original proponents, Bob Debus and Michael Daley the NSW Minister for Roads, on our demand for further consideration of this option. At the same time we have seen an increasing array of calls for the road to be left on its current line, the latest being local state member Gerard Martin’s references at the 18th July meeting at the school house. For our part we have been endeavouring to build an alliance with the Blue Mountains community where there are eighty thousand voters who will have an interest in the increased use of the highway by heavy freight vehicles and the bigger issue of whether freight should be transported by rail or road.
Before we move to the next stage of developments in respect of the highway ‘upgrade’ we felt it important that we should share the defence principles that have been debated and agreed to by the committee. I will outline them below in full.
